The following is an excerpt from the book, The Evils of Socialism, by W. F. Lemmons. The book was first published in 1912.
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If our government has produced wealth and capitalists, it is evidence of a good form of government. Any system of government that would keep all its subjects poor is as poor as its subjects. A nation cannot rise above the system of government under which its subjects live. The fact that the United States is the greatest nation in the world is evidence that we have the best system of government in the world. To apply the Socialist idea of free and equal distribution of wealth amongst the subjects of this government would involve our nation in poverty and place it at once in the power of other nations, and thus make our subjugation absolutely certain.